I found an interesting article at CNET blog. It says that kids are not allowed to use google services… really??
Google’s terms of service states that:
“You may not use … Google’s products, software, services and web sites … and may not accept the Terms if … you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with Google.
Okay… so those kids searching via google or watching video clips at Youtube are doing illegal activity…
Hopefully, I am overage now and wasn’t using google when I was teen but using Yahoo or MSN.
Google’s services are awesome, but I’m kinda afraid of over-data-mining. Feels like google will track and control everything our lives…
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They already do… my computer science professor said that one time he went to a presentation at Google (years ago, even!) and to show off some of their capabilities, they showed him a graph of search terms that were closely related to his name. What comes up but the names of his family members and his girlfriend, and other things closely related to him!? So without doing anything besides looking at correlation between search terms, Google can find out the names of people close to you, where you work or go to school, etc.